Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s by Benson, Peter

Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557288882)

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Format: Paperback
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Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s by Benson, Peter

Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

$19.95
Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s by Benson, Peter

Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson's lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

Author: Peter Benson
ISBN-10: 1557288887
ISBN-13: 9781557288882
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.72w x 1.05d
By Peter Benson
By Peter Benson
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Peter Benson is professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the author of Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa, and an avid boxing fan.

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